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Jessica Clark, a Senior Girl Scout with Troop 682, received the Girl Scout Gold Award at the bi-annual Senior Awards ceremony May 16 at the Lutheran Home in Topton. Clark, who has been a Girl Scout for 13 years, has earned the Cadette and Senior Leadership awards, two Community Service Bars and the Silver Award. She is a member of the Great Valley's Berks Museum Patrol and Packs, has participated in the Wider Opportunity in North Carolina and received the Great Valley Medal for Distinguished Senior Girl Scouts.

Blanche E. Worley, 70, formerly of 41 Sitgreaves St., Phillipsburg, died Tuesday in Warren Haven, Oxford R.D., N.J. She was a sewing machine operator at the DiLu Lingerie Co., Easton, for 40 years until retiring in 1980. Born in Easton, she was a daughter of the late Harry A. and Pauline (Fisher) Worley. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, Phillipsburg, and taught Sunday school there for many years. Worley was a Brownie, Girl Scout and Cadette leader. Surviving is a brother Harry in Ohio.

Laini Lubar, a senior at Phillipsburg High School and a member of Senior Troop No. 282, Phillipsburg, recently received the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouting. She worked for three years to complete the requirements of the award, initiated by Girl Scouts of the USA in 1980. The four major requirements are: completing the Challenge of Living the Girl Scout Promise and Law; completing four interest projects to increase skill in these areas; completing a career exploration project, and earning the Gold Leadership Award.

Tami Gill of South Whitehall Township was one of 10 area girls who received the Gold Award, the highest honor given to Girl Scouts, in a recent ceremony in East Hills Moravian Church, Bethlehem. For her Gold Award project, Gill updated the Parkland Community Library's resource file, an index of information on local clubs and other nonprofit organizations. Gill has been involved in Scouting 11 years. She also received the Silver Award, for which she participated in a musical production at her church, and the Leadership and Challenge awards.

Girl Scout days are happy memories for many Quakertown area residents, and they're invited to return to them Saturday. That's when 400 members of the 26 Girl Scout, Brownie, Daisy and Cadette troops of the Richland Service Unit of Freedom Valley Girl Scout Council will gather in Memorial Park to celebrate 50 years of scouting in the Quakertown area. The council estimated yesterday that 21,000 Quakertown area girls have donned Girl Scout uniforms in the past 50 years. The invitation is open to all who participated, but former leaders have received a special written invitation to dig out their old leaders' uniforms and join in the "Fifty is Nifty" fun day in the park.

Girl Scouts-Great Valley Council honored Senior Girl Scouts who received the Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouting, at the council's bi-annual awards ceremony held recently at Cedar Crest College. To receive the award, each Scout must complete a preapproved community service project. The project must take at least 50 hours to complete. Gold Award candidates are also required to earn seven Girl Scout recognitions which develop a girl's potential and values and help her to learn to relate to others and contribute to society.

About 10 Girl Scout troops in the Richland Service Unit collected about 540 pounds of food for needy residents during Operation Helping Hand. Mary Nixon, service unit coordinator, said Daisy, Brownie, Junior, Cadette and Senior troops donated the canned and dried goods. "With these times, we wanted to help members of our community this year," explained Nixon. This is the first time the local unit has participated in the drive. Last year the troops collected books for troops stationed in the Persian Gulf and in 1989 collected items for victims of Hurricane Hugo.

Retired residents offer their insights and reminiscences in this column compiled from interviews with Kathleen Bercaw. Meet Wilma Lesher of Wilson. A lifelong resident of Wilson. Born: Aug. 4, 1929 in Wilson. Work: Homemaker; Girl Scout leader 43 years; Sunday school teacher. Family: Married 33 years to Herbert Lesher, deceased. Philosophy of life: "Try to be a good person; stay close to God." Mother's heart condition left her confined to a wheelchair when she was in her 40s. We were best friends -- together every day and sharing special memories.

Rebecca Detrick, a senior at Pen Argyl High School, is a recipient of the "Best of the Best" award for 2000. Detrick ranks second in her class. Detrick has played flute and piccolo in the concert band and flute in the orchestra for four years. She has been piano accompanist for the chorus for four years and Northampton County Chorus representative as a junior. Vice president of the Drama Club in her junior year, she was in the school's production of "Grease" as a sophomore and had the lead role in "Come Blow Your Horn" last year.

More than 100 girls from Palmerton, Lehighton and Schnecksville got a recent taste of life in the '50s and they seemed to relish it. The flashback took place last Thursday as part of a weeklong camp-out in Palmerton Memorial Park by the Great Valley Girl Scouts Day Camp "Shady Nook." "Last year the theme we used was Outer Space and the year before that, Indians. Next year, the idea might be Disneyland," said Geri Haas of Lehighton, a camp counselor and crafts leader. For the '50s bash, the Girl Scouts wore poodle skirts and appropriate footwear, such as saddle shoes.